When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.

Michelle is a middle-aged Hong Kong woman who decides to take a trip to Southern France in order to find some inner resolution about her unhappy marriage. While touring the rainy country with a fairly depressing tour group, she befriends Miki, a quirky young Japanese woman who seems to have some problems of her own. After the end of the tour, the two women decide to extend their vacation by travelling to Morocco but things go horribly wrong when Miki is kidnapped by a modern slave-trader…